What’s the funniest thing you have witnessed that was so wrong!

[Eaglestone]

Nearly 20 years ago, when I was learning to ride at a riding school, a girl offered to rug up the horse she had just ridden.

Once she had put it on, the YO went to check and pointed out that she had put it on the wrong way …. the girl was ADAMANT that it was correct ……. well I had to contain myself from PMSL as the neck piece was neatly buckled up under the tail, with the tail coming out where the head should be …

In the girl's defence, the modern stable rugs were quite new at that time, however they were much easier to put on, than the blankets, jute rugs and the surcingle 'fiddle faffing' that had to be done in the past

 

[miller]

My dad did that on my first pony - he couldn't work out why it looked wrong, he also managed to get a headcollar on inside out and back to front - to be fair he is not horsey at all

A girl at my old yard rode for a week with a pelham in upside down (I was on hols at the time and mentioned it the day I got back) no one had said anything at all to her - even when she entered the yard show (or perhaps no one else dared

)

 

[silvershadow81]

My OH bringing gem in with the headcollar on a way i cant even begin to describe!!

Im lucky to have his help and to have such a well behaved girl!

 

[Eaglestone]

PMSL I am going to have a go tonight putting the headcollar on the wrong way round as this seems a popular mistake

 

[lastresort]

my grumpy neighbour being dragged by her dog and my daughter being dragged by her pony like in a weston film. at the time it was terrible but we both really laugh about it now! It was funny in a bad way

 

[FestiveFuzz]

Didn't so much as witness it, more something I did in the past, but still pretty funny!

I was at the local riding clubs easter show with my old horse Guy and was waiting for our next class to start when my friend Kiri came up to me and asked whether we wanted to enter the minimus jumping with her for a laugh. With a while to go til our class I thought why not and popped the bridle and martingale on over Guys head hurriedly and checked our girth. So on I hop and off we go. We enter the arena and find ourselves surrounded by 12 little kids on shetlands, I was quitely confident we would be placed but Guy had other ideas and refused nearly every jump, much to everyones amusement. It wasn't until I dismounted that I realised in my eagerness I had managed to put the martingale on back to front and had therefore twisted his reins so the left rein was joined to the right bit ring and vice versa. I didn't live that one down for quite a while although I was only 14 at the time.

 

[jenbleep]

the riding school were i used to ride had a pony in a hanging cheek snaffle...........upside down

and I out a martingale on, put didn't put the reins through the loops

someone had to point it out to me before i left the yard!

only on Monday I was trying to get into the back gate of the yard where i had my lesson.........I knew the code to the padlock but couldn't get in - i rang the yard and the guy said 'it's the padlock that is going through the lock.............'

I was trying to unlock a padlock that wasn't locked to anything

 

[Gentle_Warrior]

I had had a long long break from riding. Was helping out at the yard and we where rugging all 30 of them up ready to turf out for the night. I offered to rug up one of the ponies. Got his rug and started to put it on. Got stuck though, could not figure out how the surcingles done up, all previous horses I helped with lived naked etc. So eventually admitted defeat and asked the 12 year old kid in the stable next door. She came over, ran off, came back with 5 friends to tell me, I had it on this poor little pony inside out !!! I never lived that down !!!!

 

[Eaglestone]

That reminds me ... I got off my old boy to open an awkward gate and took the reins from over his neck as I needed to lead him.

I got back on and it was a ride that we always cantered off immediately I got back on ... well he started to go all over the place and was a bit stubborn .... then I realised that I had his reins crossed under his neck .... poor boy

 

[Eaglestone]

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I had had a long long break from riding. Was helping out at the yard and we where rugging all 30 of them up ready to turf out for the night. I offered to rug up one of the ponies. Got his rug and started to put it on. Got stuck though, could not figure out how the surcingles done up, all previous horses I helped with lived naked etc. So eventually admitted defeat and asked the 12 year old kid in the stable next door. She came over, ran off, came back with 5 friends to tell me, I had it on this poor little pony inside out !!! I never lived that down !!!!

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PMSL Whoops

 

[kit279]

One of the Argentine grooms in football strip and trainer, merrily cantering around the polo pitch, with no stirrups, fag in mouth, hat on backwards, bit in upside down.. warming up THE WRONG HORSE! He used to canter the horses up the lorry ramp as well, the rotter...

 

[silvershadow81]

My step dad FLYING across a stubble field on my old ex racer.......

after trying to convince me that he wasnt a crazy, strong nutter of a horse and I should 'get on with it!' (I was 12!)

He soon saw my side of things when he returned on a frothy horse jogging sideways down the driveway! We soon got rid!

 

[Mavis]

I bought a totally unhandled 2 yr old colt from some pikey encampment, had him gelded and gradually got him to accept being handled to the point where he would tie up to be groomed, led about (in the field) and wear tack. I advertised him for sale as a nervous butsweet project and a family bought him to bring on and back for their daughter. I told them that I would only load him in the safety of the field, because he'd only loaded once to my knowledge and that was by his old owners chasing him up the ramp with sticks. The family (two 'knowledgeable' vocal tracksuited women plus several asorted snotty, whiny overweight children) insisted that the pony would be fine to load at the top of the track leading to my stables/field, so I duly led the pony to the trailer. At this point they elected to fit a lunge line to each side of his headcollar, which panicked him, and expected him to totter up the ramp willingly.

Sadly, and yet predictably, he had other ideas and leapt through the hedge into the MOST pristine garden in the lane. The lawns were tended by a gardener and were immaculate, the whole (sizeable) garden was landscaped with hundreds of expensive flowers, and the owners of the property clearly lavished a great deal of time and money on their gardens. As the pony shot through the hedge, one knowledgeable type was left dangling in the hedge, but the more robust looking one clung onto one of the lunge lines. The pony careered down the grass bank, slipping and skidding and leaving sizeable skid marks as he went, and the robust woman slid onto her robust bottom in slow motion. This panicked the pony more, who went into a series of broncs to try to rid himself of the hearty load that was bearing down on his headcollar. Robust woman was now being dragged cowboy style round the pretty garden on her mighty backside, eating the dirt as it flew from the pony's flailing hooves, and trying to avoid being whipped by the spare lunge line as it tangled round his feet. Uprooted flowers and plants were whizzing past her head, the kids were all screaming, the other knowledgeable type was blocking the gateway with another mighty fine barricade of a bottom and shouting encouraging words like 'whoa', and I was laughing so hard that I struggled to breathe. Even as they led him back to try to load him again, I kept being convulsed with waves of inappropriate mirth. Actually as I typed this I got overcome with giggles, and this incident occurred several years ago.

 

[Eaglestone]

PMSL ... did they get him loaded in the end? ..... and what about the repairs to the garden?

 

[Mavis]

he did load yes - cant recall how, was probably sniggering in the corner by mysef anyway. I wrote a note to the property owners as they were away, and they rang me to say they wished they'd been in at the time as it sounded very amusing (fortunately).

 

[bex1984]

I moved yards a few months ago. The second day we were there I decided to ride in the schools. Pony was very good, and I got off, loosened girth and walked triumphantly back to the yard, feeling rather pleased with myself. I walked in to the barn to be greeted by one of the other liveries giving me a very odd look...she stared at me for a few seconds and then said "You do realise his saddle is under his belly, don't you?" whoooops!!

And just this weekend I discovered the dangers of sitting on pony with no hold on the reins and fee out of stirrups, taking photos of the cute lambs in the lambing shed. A rather excitable lamb jumped right out of the shed, and ran straight under Murphy's belly...and then charged around underneath him, bleating. I had to regain control of a slightly confused pony, put my camera away, slither to tha ground (avoiding landing on the lamb), scoop up the lamb and drag pony over to the shed with me to put the lamb back.

oh yes, and i once fashioned a sheath cleaner out of a broom handle, some bailer twine and a sponge...

 

[BigBird146]

Our labrador trying to hump our 3 legged cat is is really funny but really very wrong!!

 

[Abbeygale]

We have recently had an influx of pheasants around us, due to the local ("delightful") estate near us. I had been out riding the other day and as I walked into the tack room I could hear this banging around going on. I just though it was a chicken panicking that I had caught them in my tack room (

) but as I went in I caught sight of a pheasant panicking in my tackroom - and it was jumping from the floor up to the roof at the clear panels to try and escape. I made a swift exit as thought it then leave by means of the door. Went back 10 mins later to find it doing the same thing with a different clear panel and it kept landing in the bin. I was absolutely lmao!!! I think he managed to find the door again sometime later on that afternoon.....

 

[Eaglestone]

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oh yes, and i once fashioned a sheath cleaner out of a broom handle, some bailer twine and a sponge...

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Tell me more this sounds dangerous

 

[Tinker_Belle]

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Our labrador trying to hump our 3 legged cat is is really funny but really very wrong!!

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PMSL!!!!!

 

[bex1984]

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oh yes, and i once fashioned a sheath cleaner out of a broom handle, some bailer twine and a sponge...

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Tell me more this sounds dangerous

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Horsey's bits and pieces were in a very messy state - as far as I was concerned he needed to be seen by a vet (have since found out he had some kind of cancer down there

) but I was just sharing him, and the owner didn't want to get the vet

He would kick, violently, if you went anywhere near, and one summers day it was really gross and badly needed a wipe with a sponge. So I tied a sponge on to the loop on the end of a broom handle and wiped it with that

I got some very funny looks but it was better than getting my arm kicked!!

 

[PapaFrita]

Headcollar on upside down... I still don't know how they managed it...

 

[harrihjc]

not really 'wrong' but pretty funny....I used to have a lovely connie mare who really was a little deficient in the brain cell department, once caught her scratching her belly on a large road cone we were using as a corner marker in the field, but she had somehow got stuck with the road cone wedged under her belly, and she looked so embarrassed! Another time she got stuck trying to scratch her back under a thick branch on this huge tree in the field.

My pony (greedy mare) quickly figured out that we kept a large sack of carrots in a swing top bin in the tackroom. She forced her head through the swing top to get at the carrots, and I caught a glimpse that she had got in the tackroom and yelled at her, at which she jumped back knowing she was being naughty and ran off, with the bin lid stuck found her neck! Makes me giggle just thinking about it, she looked so silly!


Not horse related, but a fair few years ago I kindly presented my friend with a shopping trolley i had found as a birthday present at his beach party. There was a slightly odd looking boy sitting watching us, and my friend pushed the trolley down the slope to the beach, and as you'd expect when it hit the sand it flipped over. The strange boy then got up, and excitedly told us that he could go down the hill on his bicycle, and instantly did so...hit the sand at speed, bike flipped, boy went flying over the top face down into the sand, and the bike landed on top of him, with the saddle hitting him on the head. He got up, brushed himself off and shouted up to us ''see, told you I could'' and walked off. I was literally crying with laughter!

 

[Eluana]

The new helper at the yard, trying to groom the pony she liked over her rug

and a girl at a show on a tiny pony and if she wrapped her legs around him they would of met in the middle

 

[mattilda]

Many years ago I used to help out at my local riding school and one of the pupils asked if she could tack up her pony. She was one of the more experienced pupils and so I said OK. 10 minutes later she proudly led out the pony with both saddle and bridle on backwards! So so funny.

 

[Booboos]

I was so nervous at a hunter trial that I took my foot out of the stirrup and then flipped the saddle flap over to do the girth...think about it, what happened?

Yep the stirrup iron flew up and hit me on the head (well on the hat) nearly knocking me out before I had even taken a step!

 

[tye_bo]

Shouldn't really laugh I suppose but the yard I used to be did riding holidays and one particular day after a hack one of the guests turned their horse out in the field with saddle and bridle still on. They didn't realise that you didn't do that!! Queue lots of people running to catch said horse before she rolled/got caught up in reins!

 

[rabatsa]

I once put chalk marks on a pony for a trace clip for someone on my way to work. They asked me what was wrong when I saw the resulting clip.... They had only clipped the wrong side of the lines

 

[Clodagh]

My gorgeous brother-in-law watching me rug up his beautiful hunter mare he had loaned me and me all in a tizzy forgetting to do up the front straps on her turnout...still makes me blush now!

 

[Janette]

Sat in the line up at a show, I was looking at the girl next to me trying to figure out what was wrong with her turnout........

She had her skull cap on back to front, with the velvet cover facing forwards......weird.